Aurora Store is way too unreliable and is nearly unusable. I have been using APKMirror so far and while it is okay, it is somewhat annoying that Obtainium can not directly download from there whereas it can with APKPure. I wanted to know the security level of APKPure in comparison to APKMirror.
I would love to but you can’t even make a Google account anymore without giving out your phone number
One trick is to have anold android phone. I created a couple of accounts last year without giving any personal data by using a device with android kitkat.